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And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After death has stopped the ears.

Source: A Shropshire Lad, 19, `To an Athlete Dying Young'
-- A E Housman, (Mar 26 1859-1936), English scholar, poet; His lyrics express a Romantic pessimism in a spare, simple style.

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